How to format your references using the Journal of Trust Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Trust Research. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Ehlers, M. D. (2003). Eppendorf 2003 prize-winning essay. Ubiquitin and the deconstruction of synapses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 800–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perrimon, N., & Bernfield, M. (2000). Specificities of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in developmental processes. Nature, 404(6779), 725–728.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mackenzie, R. B., Dewberry, C. T., & Leopold, K. R. (2015). SULFUR CHEMISTRY. Gas phase observation and microwave spectroscopic characterization of formic sulfuric anhydride. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6243), 58–61.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kurisu, G., Zhang, H., Smith, J. L., & Cramer, W. A. (2003). Structure of the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis: tuning the cavity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5647), 1009–1014.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Lévy, P. (2013). The Semantic Sphere 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

White, W. B. (Ed.). (2007). Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics (Second Edition). Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Marsh, G. P. (2014). New Introduction by David Lowenthal (2003). In F. O. Ndubisi (Ed.), The Ecological Design and Planning Reader (pp. 33–50). Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Trust Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, September 16). Watch The Fight Between A Mongoose And A Cobra. IFLScience; IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1989). Desegregation Activities: Administration of Education Grant Funds at the Cleveland School District (HRD-89-83). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Witvorapong, N. (2011). The Dynamics of Living Arrangements Among the Elderly [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Rothenberg, B. (2017, August 16). Müller Climbs the Rankings at an Age When Others Retire. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ehlers, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ehlers, 2003; Perrimon & Bernfield, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Perrimon & Bernfield, 2000)
Three authors: (Mackenzie et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Kurisu et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Trust Research
Abbreviation	J. Trust Res.
ISSN (print)	2151-5581
ISSN (online)	2151-559X
Scope